Pruning tips, and ONE mistake that WILL kill your trees!

Today's video we will visit some pruning I've done, talk about it, tips on pruning, many which aren't covered in my previous videos, because I've learned them over the last 7 years. Plus, one major mistake that will kill every single tree that you make this mistake on.
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[@jamesprice1210]

Great information! I actually went to check my maple after watching this and it had the same issue. I cut away the worst roots and took away the mulch volcano. Thanks!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Wow that's great! Saved another tree!!

[@chip7772000]

Thanks man, since I've been watching you, we've significantly changed the way we garden!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Great to hear! We just have to reach the rest of the people now!

[@vguvuy]

for the cracks i recomend bridge grafting. there is a lot of a nice videos about. so you can keep it for a much longer time

[@Debbie-henri]

Another tip - check inside your tree guards after every leaf fall, and clear out any dead leaves and moss that build up in there. Not only does this accumulating debris make a nice place for pests to overwinter, some trees are remarkably adept at rooting into this stuff, so when you take the tree guard off you get a trunk covered in extra roots.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

100% this also!!

[@sweetbizil]

Thanks for the tree mulch warning. I had no idea they would girdle themselves like that. I think it is important to note though every tree has a different root flare and natural appearance. Some are more pronounced and buttressed than others. It can be hard to know what is the correct level until you get to know your trees pretty well.

[@TinMan445]

Great video. I recently leaned I’ve been doing this to my potted peach. I’m moving out of the city this summer to my own land so I’ll fix it when I plant next spring.

[@garthwunsch]

Great video my friend…

[@jons5898]

Thanks for the pruning advice ! I’ve been so busy working in the food forest here in Idaho that I haven’t had time to shave either ! 😂

[@paulspanish-he2ki]

I just came across your channel the other day. I've watched about 4 or 5 of your videos. I live in Denver, Colorado...we get a lot of strong sun here. I've xeriscaped my yard and grow a vegetable garden. However, I am looking to convert my yard into a food forest as much as possible. I've made a lot of the mistakes that you have covered in the videos that I'e watched so far. I appreciate your hard work and the sharing of your journey!! I am a member, now!! Looking forward to learning more ... Thanks, bud

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Welcome to the family and thanks for supporting us. You will notice I try to answer all comments, so if you ever have any questions, just leave a comment! I'd also love learning from your experiences also!

[@kelseypotter2192]

Thanks for this good to know. Just grew my first comfrey due to your channel. About to go into my 20x12" food forest. Yes it's 30% jerusalem artichokes now lol.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

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[@RT3Creations-Learn]

New subscriber here! Trying to form my own little food forest and channel about the topic. I Appreciate your content because it is really descriptive and I am learning a lot. Keep it up!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

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[@JoelKSullivan]

Thanks for this! I didn't understand the problems with mulch volcanoes as much as I do now.

[@AP-uw7wd]

I watched a squirrel last fall in the top of a tree eating all the branch tips, and wondered how that would affect the tree. Now I know, it's all good!

[@keithnotley2440]

Thanks Keith....very sage advice as always. I made the same pruning mistakes with my peach tree as well. After some savage curly leaf issues over several years, I gave the tree a significant ORGANIC nutrient boost. The positive result was, the tree's newfound vigor and health all but stopped the curly leaf! The negative aspect was, that I did not prune back all this new growth properly and the elongated branches produced a very large [exciting!] fruit harvest, that split several main frame branches in some strong summer winds! Now I will try to notch these longer limbs to bring my fruit harvest back onto shorter branches rather than all the weight on the extremities. All the best from Oz....Cheers.🙂💪🍀

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Great comment, especially about using notching as a tool to intercept hormone flow and focus fruiting lower. Great stuff and obviously you are very knowledgeable in pruning and tree care! Not many people know about bud notching!

[@hollybritton7255]

I garden in my pajamas all the time, haha. Definitely look for water flow this spring.

[@Paravetje]

Great information, thanks!

[@ArsasSternenkatze]

I think we had the warmest april ever here (temperatures like as if it was in the middle of hot hot hot summer) followed by freezing temperatures now. I will find out in the next few weeks if any fruit will stay on my fruit trees... Fingers crossed but i do not have much hope 🤞🤞🙈

[@skimusic3773]

When you know you will prune, can you air-layer trees and not throw away those beautiful branches? Thanks for your help! Showing your mistakes is invaluable.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Yes absolutely.

[@helio2k]

I recently saw an interesting technique where you cut/severed the phloem above a sleeping budto stop growth inhibitors from above the bud to wake it up. Your peach tree with that long branch would be an ideal test object

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Indeed, it's called notching

[@traryvery8851]

How interesting. I was aware that you had to be a bit careful with mulch placement but did not realise about the roots. So helpful to be shown where you have not been so happy with your pruning and the consequences as well as what you are doing to rectify it. Thank you again as well for your informative “difficult topic” vids about the environmental changes we are all facing. Best wishes from Australia

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Thanks so much for the comment, especially the latter part. People won't often comment that they agree, amd only when they don't agree, and that can lead to the incorrect perception that many people don't understand climate change, because all you see are the loud denialists.

[@traryvery8851]

It is important that you are talking about it particularly given your background. Aussies have generally tended to be rather anti-nuclear and we might have missed the boat anyway on that if we change our minds. Personally we have made a move to solar and battery as a part of a community virtual power plant as we have a lot of sunshine and power from the grid is very expensive (for a variety of reasons). We personally don’t have a big system but I am fortunate to be home based now and so have changed behaviour to use power as it is being made.🙂

[@barbarasimoes9463]

This was hugely helpful. The cold we are now having makes me nervous about whether or not I'll be getting fruit. I thought last year would be the year I'd finally get cherries and peaches, but then we had that cold snap. Here we go, again... Anyway, I pruned the peach a bit, but I will now know to cut branches shorter. I was mainly worried about the vase shape, water sprouts and branches growing inward or crossing. I have a heck of a time figuring out which are fruit buds and which are leaves in the dead of winter...there's a video idea for next winter! Do you do summer pruning? I'm thinking that might be when I shorten the branches, although it will be more difficult to do if I see fruit developing!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

I've heard that cherries like summer pruning, so I do that in the summer, although I have to admit I haven't researched it at all to learn why that is, or if it is even true lol.

[@barbarasimoes9463]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy From what I understand, winter pruning puts trees into overdrive growth while summer pruning does not and is a way to control size better.

[@dawnpettiglio6930]

@@barbarasimoes9463 that's because of a plants natural desire to keep a balance between above ground and below ground size. In the winter the tree is dormant and the roots don't die back when pruned - so spring you get an explosion of growth. In the summer, the tree will naturally adjust its root ball when pruned.

[@AlenAbdula]

What is the solid piece spreading the branches on the peach? I've used this technique on my plum and ended up damaging area on both ends. Now, I just prune for desired shape and sometimes use green plastic tape to bend the branch and anchor to the ground. Peach looking great. They only last 6ish years here in MA if we not careful with planting and selection, soon as they reach water table roots rot. Huge leaf curl issue. New subscriber. Love your videos. Eta: you can notch the branch that has extended too far above the bud or leaf node to force the hormone production for fruiting branches.

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Indeed, notching the branches can help intercept and change hormone flows and create a node where a bud will branch out and make a great lateral which can be a future scaffold. I mention it in a few of the pruning videos, but I should definitely have brought it up here. Great comment!!

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

The solid piece is just a tree limb spreader that a previous client purchased way too many of and offered them to me to use. I have enjoyed them (was previously using twine and a brick). So far so good on excessive damage to branches, but the more annoying with with them is that they fall off in wind storms when the trees sway.

[@AlenAbdula]

@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy yeah same problem here with wind. I've tried green tape which solves the falling off but area around the tree becomes Mr. Beast maze.

[@MichaelBaker-dd6xg]

Help, my brothers strawberries got a fungus and they had to burn the patch to kill the fungus. Could that also happen in the food forest, have you had any problems with this?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Never had issues with this myself.

[@Puuseppo]

I'm pretty sure you showed in one of your videos a "deer fence" which was just stuff deers like to eat and stops them before they get to eating your fruit trees and all the good stuff. Just can't find it anywhere

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

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[@Puuseppo]

Thank you kindly!

[@ingavaiciakauskaite3485]

Why did the bark of that last tree crack so bad? I had a similar issue with one of my apple trees but I couldn't figure out why it happened

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

It was extreme temperature differences in mid winter. It happens to us when we get down to the -40 degree range. The tree gets SO COLD at night, but then in the mid day it can warm up quite a bit with the sun bearing down on it. The big difference causes thermal expansion and its too fast for the tree to deal with and it cracks. You can see on some of my trees I paint them white with a limestone chalk "paint". It's just crushed slurry limestone. This lasts about 1-2 years and helps prevent the sun heating up the tree as much in the winter days.

[@traryvery8851]

Very interesting. I paint my young tree trunks to avoid sunburn 🤣. No issues with cold where I live. I also use calcined kaolin as a sunscreen at times as well as using it to repel citrus gall wasp, a native Australian beastie that you can be glad has not made its way overseas.

[@dawnpettiglio6930]

I can't seem to tell how close I should plant my dwarf serviceberry to my dwarf apple tree. Can anyone give advice? TIA

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

Depends on long term plan and budget. I like to plant very close in the first 10 years, fully knowing that once the trees get large, I will have to remove some. However thebdenser planting is better at quickly cresting habitat and food for animals, which reduces pest pressure and brings balance and fertility sooner. It's just more expensive. I have some serviceberries planted a foot away from other fruit trees. The other nice thing about dense planting is that if one tree struggles, another will do well, and nature will tell me which of those trees wants to be the dominant creature in that space. Then I don't have to wait 7 years to re-try and get a nice tree in a spot, nature is already sorting it out and co-designing my space with me. This is a method that works best if you have a lot of land, and don't mind if a linden tree (for example) out competes a plum, because I have many other plums. But if you only have enough room for 3 trees for example, then you really are going to want them to all be fruit trees, so you may not even plant a seeviceberry. It all depends on the case by case details.

[@dawnpettiglio6930]

Thank you!!!!!! I have 72 acres total - but I'm 62 yo - the 7 years matters more than money or space.

[@smueller12244]

eff man i feel like my entire county pays for mulch volcanos it's INSANE

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

They are all over. It's hard to unsee once you know about them. You see them everywhere.

[@d.w.stratton4078]

So I guess you're always playing a losing game with time because even if it's just a foot or so each year, after 10-15 years you're quite far out from center of the tree and probably going to see cracking, no? How long do these fruit trees live if well maintained?

[@CanadianPermacultureLegacy]

It depends on the tree. Here peaches are about 7 years only, but apples can produce for 50.